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Photo number five.. In this picture you can see how I chained off the winch to the foot of the tree. By the way, the yellow base is just a homemade steel plate with a rebar loop that can be either chained off to a tree or for an emergency off road excursion, simply draped off the ball on a trailer hitch.

Interesting. If / when I can come up with a homestead, I was thinking for firewood that I would ring a few trees in advance of needing them. Letting them die and dry out in an upright position, then felling them for dry, aged wood when needed.

good plan cdinstead of ringing, you can drive copper nails into the trunk, if you can find copper nails.copper sulfate also works..it's sold as sewer root remover.drill a hole using a cordless drill and a 1" paddle bit at an angle in as far as you can, and fill the hole with the crystal root remover..works best in early spring, just before the sap starts to rise..the copper kills the tree, and standing dead wood dries much faster than downed wood.again, as paul emphasized, use the appropriate safety gear...goggles and gloves in this case.